The Chairman of Ikoyi-Obalende Native Council Growth Space of Lagos, Fuad Atanda-Lawal, has permitted a 100 per cent pay increase for the medical medical doctors hooked up to all the first well being centres within the council space.
The Information Company of Nigeria stories that Atanda-Lawal introduced this on Thursday after in depth deliberations on the necessity to make sure that all residents within the council had entry to complete, high quality and inexpensive well being care.
He stated the increment would take impact from February 2024. In accordance with the council boss, the choice follows the necessity to tackle the mind drain at present skilled within the nation’s well being sector, a development generally referred to as japa.
The chairman reiterated his perception that Nigeria was blessed with medical doctors who might compete with their friends globally if given the mandatory incentives.
“That is approaching the heels of the graduation of the development of a state-of-the-art major well being centre that may cater for a bigger variety of folks in the neighborhood.
“I need to reiterate the council’s dedication to supporting the efforts of our esteemed President, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and Governor Babajide Sanwolu in delivering high quality and inexpensive well being care to all residents.
“We consider that by investing in our well being care professionals, we’re taking a step in the direction of reaching this aim,” the chairman stated.
In January, the Everlasting Secretary, Lagos State Well being Service Fee, Dr Eniayewun Ademuyiwa, lamented that government-owned hospitals had been changing into overstretched because of the mass emigration of well being employees overseas for greener pastures, in what is usually known as ‘japa.’
He revealed that the acute scarcity of manpower in among the federal services had elevated the variety of sufferers being admitted to state hospitals throughout Lagos.
Final yr, the Nigerian Affiliation of Resident Medical doctors stated no fewer than 1,417 of their members relocated overseas in the hunt for greener pastures.
